Please visit the annotated list of web sites below. Each of them contains useful information for teaching literacy and ESL at the elementary and middle school levels as well as ideas for implementing technology into the curriculum.
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp
- The Internet Teachers of English as a Second Language Journal http://iteslj.org/
- Center for Applied Linguistics (ELL) http://www.cal.org/topics/ell/
- Tennessee English as a Second Language Standards http://www.state.tn.us/education/fedprog/doc/fpeslcurriculum.pdf
- Go to http://www.wordle.net/ for an easy and interesting way to showcase words. Wordle allows you to generate word clouds from words you key in or from an online source. An excellent resource for word identification or vocabulary activities!
- Check out this website http://www.readingquest.org/strat/ for reading strategies, instructions, templates, and ideas.
- You can access a template for the Facebook project at http://techtoolsforschools.blogspot.com/2010/01/facebook-project-template.html.
- See an example of a book trailer (used instead of a book report) at this website http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=153745&title=13_reasons_book_trailer
- Check out this website for examples of student-made technology examples involving children's and young adult literature. http://www.youblisher.com/p/43054-Literacy-Technology-Examples/
- Did you know that you have access to more than a million FREE e-books scanned in public domain at www.archive.org
- Why do you have to do all this technology stuff anyway? Check out the new report from Walden University: Educators, Technology, and 21st Century Skills: Dispelling Five Myths